"We should go swimming too," Jeff said, tapping his sister on the shoulder. "Unless you're afraid of water."
Carla looked at him. "Ha. In case you forgot, I was around to invent swimming in a previous life. Let's go. Be nice and I might save you if you start drowning."
The two walked off.
"Aren't they adorable?" Mary-Beth asked, pretending to look desperate.
"What's that previous life stuff your daughter talked about," Corey asked.
"She's doing a paper on reincarnation," Bill explained, "and now everything's blamed on past lives."
"Seeing this is about life and death, and the others are already dead, this means it's just our lives at stake, right?" Harvey asked for a stiff drink.
Harvey frowned for a moment. He liked how she stepped up for him, but at the same time her words made it sound like he was a wimp. He might be, but that wasn't for all the world to know.
Leander switched out his long duster, pulling on a worn pea coat and a shapeless woolen hat, turning himself from the tough P.I. into an average working man. With practiced ease, he fell into the slouching posture of a tired worker on his way home, carrying a satchel with the newspaper, his empty lunchbox and the bottle of milk. That was who his neighbors knew, that was who his family saw.
And that was exactly the way he wanted it.
These goons had killed Mark. I had to face that brutal fact, because Luka had admitted that those were their orders.
The rage I felt at that thought was frightening. Right now, I was ready to tear out their throats with my bare hands. If they had killed Mark, they did not deserve to live. And I would find [villain] next and do the same to him.
William asked if the young men were marriage material.
"They are," Isla confirmed, "but I'm not. Not for them. I tried to tell them, before they turned into a stampede, but they didn't listen. So I made them understand the witchy way."
"Perhaps you should start doing things the queenly way, Isla," the wizard said. "It's not looking good for the kingd-, I mean queendom when you're known as the queen who beats up people."
Alex actually laughed. “I can’t wait to see how I’ll look. I don’t know if I want to be a big black wolf or more like you so I can fit in and figure out secrets.”
“Trust me, looking like Fred does make it a lot easier.” Mark somehow looked proud. Why would he…?
A Wolf's Christmas, Wolves of the South 7
(coming soon)
“You get the window, I go upstairs,” Fred yelled, and I ran through the kitchen and out of the back door.
Yes, the kid was already climbing out of his room’s window.
I watched him hang on to the windowsill with his hands, dangling quite comfortably before letting go and landing on the ground with a thump. He bent at his knees, and it was clear to me this wasn’t the first time he had done it.
A Wolf's Christmas, Wolves of the South 7
(coming soon)
I stayed back in the shadows of the garage, hiding behind one of the cars, not entirely sure what I was seeing. But the woman talking to Bert moved in ways that were so achingly familiar. I wanted to walk up to her, take a deep breath, testing her scent, but of course, that would not happen.
Could not happen.
A Mustang's Dream, Mustangs of the West 1
(Not coming soon.)
I woke up in the dark, not sure what had disturbed my sleep. I listened sharply, glad my Wolf gave me stronger senses. There it was. Steps in the hallway, coming up to our door.
I tensed.
The steps moved away again.
Whoever it was turned around and walked up to our door again, but didn’t stop. Someone was pacing the hallway, and not in a good way.
“Mark spricht kein Deutsch,” Aunt Maria explained.
“We’ll manage,” I reassured them. “If you speak German slowly, I can understand you. And we’ll both speak English slowly and with simple words. Right?” I glared at Mark.
“Simple words,” he repeated. “I can do that. I can do that even better with beer.”
A Wolf's Christmas, Wolves of the South Book 7
(coming as soon as I can manage)
Mark seemed to struggle more with the noise and crowding on the airplane than I did, and I felt a little guilty for dragging him along with me. He also took one sniff at what went for dinner with this airline and paled.
“That… they think this is food?”
A Wolf's Christmas, Wolves of the South Book 7
(Coming for Christmas...)
With grim determination, Earth threw up a bubble, wrapping all of them in as tight a shield as she could manage. She anchored it in the ground, reaching down to firm rock.
“Gennie, if you have any energy to spare, help hold that bubble, please.”
“Of course, Momma Earth.”
She could sense the girl’s smile, and somehow, that gave her hope.
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(Finally making progress!)